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Designing a Sustainability Program for the Manufacturing Industry: Establishing a Sustainability Baseline for VDL ETG
Sarmiento Casas, Maria Alejandra (2023) Designing a Sustainability Program for the Manufacturing Industry: Establishing a Sustainability Baseline for VDL ETG.
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Embargo date: | 13 March 2028 |
Abstract: | In a world where the word sustainability has become almost inescapable, finding ways to formalize, standardize, and measure sustainability might represent the most pressing challenge of our time. It is more than clear the social, environmental, and economic implications of the climate crisis. One of the first affected by upcoming sustainability trends but also governmental regulations and market pressures is the manufacturing industry. Once the need for a sustainability approach has been recognized, what are the next steps? This thesis explores the creation of a method and defines the most pressing cornerstones of our times in terms of corporate sustainability. Establishing a method to analyze a company’s current state, business operations, and understanding their circumstances and needs is necessary to define how to address sustainability and increase the rate of success. For VDL ETG, the pressure to address sustainability in a systematic and practical manner comes from different stakeholders. A tool was created using the existing and internationally recognized GRI (Global Reporting Initiative) standards, the results of internal and external stakeholder analyses as guidelines, and upcoming pressing European regulations to define topics and subtopics, measurement parameters, and data collection requirements. This tool attempts to define a single-score indicator that reflects sustainability performance but also serve as a standardization method and aid in disclosing sustainability-related topics for VDL ETG. |
Item Type: | Essay (Master) |
Clients: | VDL ETG, Almelo, Netherlands |
Faculty: | ET: Engineering Technology |
Subject: | 50 technical science in general |
Programme: | Industrial Design Engineering MSc (66955) |
Link to this item: | https://purl.utwente.nl/essays/94570 |
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